Owner’s Field Guide

Start with the business question.

Before checkout, custody, or treasury gets touched, use the guides to decide where Bitcoin fits – if it fits at all.

Receipt, notebook with a business decision list, calculator, and pencil on a dark counter

Tools & Worksheets

Work the question while it is still small.

Use a worksheet when you have rough numbers, a checkout scenario, or a security question. It will not make the decision for you. It gives Mike better assumptions to challenge.

Open Tools & Worksheets

01 Payment fee pressure Card costs against a small Bitcoin payment test

02 Historical CAGR explainer Past-price math without a future-price promise

03 Checkout fit The first payment moment and the missing workflow pieces

04 Volatility scenario Settlement and refund assumptions before a customer test

05 Customer visibility Whether Bitcoin customers could find and trust the option

06 Security prep High-level questions only, with sensitive details kept out

Bring assumptions, not private keys, seed phrases, wallet balances, screenshots, or sensitive documents.

Community

Could Bitcoin do a useful job in your business?

If you run a restaurant, cafe, retail shop, brewery, butcher shop, spa, health studio, ski area, or local service business, this community is built for owners who want to examine the idea without trading talk or pressure to act.

Bitcoin does not magically fix a business. We focus on three business decisions it may affect.

Some scenarios we work through

Does accepting Bitcoin make sense for your customers?
How do payment tools and total costs compare with what you use now?
What would a simple first checkout test require?
What do staff and customers need explained before launch?
Where might Bitcoin customers find your business, and what should you say?
What should you understand before holding Bitcoin as a company reserve?
What are the risks, and when should the answer be “not yet”?

Three places to look first

Customer discovery

A Bitcoin payment option only helps if the right customers can find it and understand it.

Payment costs

Card fees are one cost to compare. Settlement, refunds, provider fees, and staff time belong in the same calculation.

Long-term reserves

Holding Bitcoin as a company reserve is a serious decision. Volatility, custody, security, liquidity, records, and professional advice all matter before company money is put at risk.

Bring the real question.

Start with whatever rough numbers you already have. Inside the community, we work through what to compare next, where a qualified professional needs to step in, and whether the right move is to wait.

Join the Community

Business Resources

Business needs, gathered in one place.

For the moments when reading turns into choosing who to use, what to verify, or where to go next.

View Business Resources

Guides

IRS – Digital asset transaction FAQsOfficial source FinCEN – Virtual currency guidanceOfficial source FASB – ASU 2023-08 accounting standardOfficial source NIST – Small-business cybersecurity guideOfficial source Bitcoin Developer Guide – Payment processingProtocol reference Square – Accept and manage bitcoin paymentsProvider source

The Deeper Shelf

After the
first decision.

Some questions need a qualified professional, not another article.

Grow

Customer demand without the hype

Secure

Wallets, custody, and recovery

Record

Records, accounting, and compliance

Local

Bitcoin in New Hampshire and New England

Choose

Providers, gateways, and implementation

Mike’s Source Standard

“We use old articles as research inputs, not assumed truth. Claims are checked before we put our name behind them.”

Official sources

Current provider documentation

Credible independent research

Our field experience

Educational only. Bring questions, not private keys, seed phrases, balances, or sensitive documents.

Still deciding whether Bitcoin fits?

Bring us the business question.
We’ll help you sort the fit before anything gets changed.

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